Staff Engineer
Core
Design and evolve scalable backend platforms for APIs, data, and AI, embedding LLM orchestration, evaluation, and safety controls while solving high-stakes technical problems.
Role type
Staff Backend/Platform Engineer (AI-native systems)
Builds
Production-grade APIs, data services, and AI-native platform capabilities (LLM orchestration, guardrails, evaluation harnesses)
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI/LLM engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
System design, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containers & Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, database management (Postgres/MySQL, NoSQL), event-driven architectures (Kafka), backend languages (Go, Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript)
Preferred skills
AI systems in production (LLM gateways, prompt/model evaluation), developer experience improvement, open-source contributions
Responsibilities
Align engineering roadmap with business outcomes, design scalable core platforms for APIs and AI, embed AI capabilities (orchestration, guardrails, governance), mentor engineers through reviews and pairing
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
